DRIVING SUCCESS
LEADERSHIPcontinuous learning culture
human elements
identity
process
impact
sustainability
Creating Sustainable Leadership – Becoming Learning Leaders
Master Programme
Leadership which effectively fosters Agile and Resilient Learning Cultures will transform your organisation by increasing Engagement, Motivation, Enjoyment, Retention and Productivity
Key topics and benefits:
- Leadership for Building an Agile Continuous Learning Culture
- All aspects of the Investors in Learning Driving Success model
- Tools and techniques to create an Agile Learning Culture
- Understanding of the role of Leadership in developing Agility and fostering Learning
- Learning Leader self -assessment
- Assess and measure current approach to Learning Leadership
- Benefits of Learning Leadership
- Learning Leader development plan
- Develop positive Leadership across your organisation
- Learning Leader implementation strategy
And more….
Creating Sustainable Leadership – Becoming Learning Leaders
Master Programme
Leadership which effectively fosters Agile and Resilient Learning Cultures will transform your organisation by increasing Engagement, Motivation, Enjoyment, Retention and Productivity
DRIVING SUCCESS
LEADERSHIPcontinuous learning culture
human elements
identity
process
impact
sustainability
Key topics and benefits:
- Leadership for Building an Agile Continuous Learning Culture
- All aspects of the Investors in Learning Driving Success model
- Tools and techniques to create an Agile Learning Culture
- Understanding of the role of Leadership in developing Agility and fostering Learning
- Learning Leader self -assessment
- Assess and measure current approach to Learning Leadership
- Benefits of Learning Leadership
- Learning Leader development plan
- Develop positive Leadership across your organisation
- Learning Leader implementation strategy
And more….
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-- Lao Tzu
“The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things.”
-- Ronald Reagan
OVERVIEW
In these unprecedented and fast changing times, we understand the need for Leadership development more than ever before. There is a whole host of research around leadership and the conversation around leadership is high on the agenda both in psychology as well as in the popular press. There is a good reason for this. It is because all the research is telling us how important leadership is to the sustainable development of any individual, team or organisation.
This programme is not like any programme on leadership development. This programme is focused on the development of Agile Learning Leaders. The focus therefore is on the importance of combining Agility, Learning and Leadership. There is a plethora of research on the power of Culture and Leadership. Getting the culture right is paramount to any sustainable success. As we now know through research, “Culture eats strategy for breakfast, lunch and dinner” (Peter Drucker). So, in order for any strategy to be effective we need to be focused on culture and we need to decide clearly what culture we are seeking to build. In this programme the Leaders are learning to build a culture specifically around developing and fostering Agility and Learning. The right leadership is a key foundational driver in embedding a Culture of Learning and innovation into an organisation, developing Engagement and Motivation and ensuring productivity and business continuity. If we are not continually intentionally learning and improving, then we do not understand the issues that are around us and we cannot lead effectively with purpose and understanding.
Investing in Agile Learning Leadership Development will increase your Employee Engagement, Retention, Productivity, Motivation, Satisfaction and loyalty.
The Investors in Learning Driving Success model has Leadership surrounding all the ingredients, as the Leadership creates the energy, motivation and drive to make all else happen. Without genuine Leadership support and buy into the essential development and implementation of culture, strategy, processes, and capabilities many things will fail. Therefore, the Leadership is paramount to achieving whole scale organisational change.
Agile Learning Leaders understand that Leadership and Learning are completely intertwined and that one cannot function sustainably without the other. They also understand the key importance and practice of agility and how Continuous Learning along with Agile values, behaviours and methodologies are key to driving success through turbulence and unpredictable change, into the long term.
-- Lao Tzu
“The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things.”
-- Ronald Reagan
OVERVIEW
In these unprecedented and fast changing times, we understand the need for Leadership development more than ever before. There is a whole host of research around leadership and the conversation around leadership is high on the agenda both in psychology as well as in the popular press. There is a good reason for this. It is because all the research is telling us how important leadership is to the sustainable development of any individual, team or organisation.
This programme is not like any programme on leadership development. This programme is focused on the development of Agile Learning Leaders. The focus therefore is on the importance of combining Agility, Learning and Leadership. There is a plethora of research on the power of Culture and Leadership. Getting the culture right is paramount to any sustainable success. As we now know through research, “Culture eats strategy for breakfast, lunch and dinner” (Peter Drucker). So, in order for any strategy to be effective we need to be focused on culture and we need to decide clearly what culture we are seeking to build. In this programme the Leaders are learning to build a culture specifically around developing and fostering Agility and Learning. The right leadership is a key foundational driver in embedding a Culture of Learning and innovation into an organisation, developing Engagement and Motivation and ensuring productivity and business continuity. If we are not continually intentionally learning and improving, then we do not understand the issues that are around us and we cannot lead effectively with purpose and understanding.
Investing in Agile Learning Leadership Development will increase your Employee Engagement, Retention, Productivity, Motivation, Satisfaction and loyalty.
The Investors in Learning Driving Success model has Leadership surrounding all the ingredients, as the Leadership creates the energy, motivation and drive to make all else happen. Without genuine Leadership support and buy into the essential development and implementation of culture, strategy, processes, and capabilities many things will fail. Therefore, the Leadership is paramount to achieving whole scale organisational change.
Agile Learning Leaders understand that Leadership and Learning are completely intertwined and that one cannot function sustainably without the other. They also understand the key importance and practice of agility and how Continuous Learning along with Agile values, behaviours and methodologies are key to driving success through turbulence and unpredictable change, into the long term.
Just as John F Kennedy said:
"The greater our knowledge increases, the more our ignorance unfolds."
"Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other."
In this time in the fast pace of change, developing a Learning Culture and fostering learning, lies at the heart of any sustainable success. Having a clear Learning Culture and values that are understood and shared is the one element that will help to create a foundation of predictability within the volatility, uncertainty, ambiguity and confusion that we live in. A clear Learning Culture with Learning Leaders who understand the key ingredients and how to stimulate, perpetuate and foster this culture, creates the certainty, the clarity, the understanding and the agility that we need today more than ever.
In this programme you will learn to become a Learning Leader. We will give you all the tools and techniques and strategies from the world of Occupational Psychology and beyond to be the leader you need to be to create a Learning Organisation and a Learning Culture. To be a leader that stimulates and supports a Learning Culture requires certain key ingredients. In a culture in which people can feel safe to explore the mistakes that happen and apply corrective actions, and in which people can openly innovate without fear or blame, we need values and an environment where people can have the difficult and courageous conversations that lead to learning and change. We also need to have social support structures, behaviours and processes that allow this to happen, as well as codes of conduct that enable the correcting of behaviours that may act as a barrier to learning. As well as all this we also need to know the ingredients and processes that facilitate learning for self, team and organisations.
Leaders are responsible for the environment they create; they are the role models of the behaviours they want in their teams. Leaders create the environment that create the relationships that last.
Developing Leadership skills and applying the right type of Leadership in the right situation is an art. Leadership requires a complex set of traits and a refined ability to understand the situation at hand. The Leadership skills required will vary depending on the style you believe in and are trying to adopt. This is why an exploration and understanding of Leadership approaches is paramount in order to be clear about the approach required in particular situations.
Just as John F Kennedy said:
"The greater our knowledge increases, the more our ignorance unfolds."
"Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other."
In this time in the fast pace of change, developing a Learning Culture and fostering learning, lies at the heart of any sustainable success. Having a clear Learning Culture and values that are understood and shared is the one element that will help to create a foundation of predictability within the volatility, uncertainty, ambiguity and confusion that we live in. A clear Learning Culture with Learning Leaders who understand the key ingredients and how to stimulate, perpetuate and foster this culture, creates the certainty, the clarity, the understanding and the agility that we need today more than ever.
In this programme you will learn to become a Learning Leader. We will give you all the tools and techniques and strategies from the world of Occupational Psychology and beyond to be the leader you need to be to create a Learning Organisation and a Learning Culture. To be a leader that stimulates and supports a Learning Culture requires certain key ingredients. In a culture in which people can feel safe to explore the mistakes that happen and apply corrective actions, and in which people can openly innovate without fear or blame, we need values and an environment where people can have the difficult and courageous conversations that lead to learning and change. We also need to have social support structures, behaviours and processes that allow this to happen, as well as codes of conduct that enable the correcting of behaviours that may act as a barrier to learning. As well as all this we also need to know the ingredients and processes that facilitate learning for self, team and organisations.
Leaders are responsible for the environment they create; they are the role models of the behaviours they want in their teams. Leaders create the environment that create the relationships that last.
Developing Leadership skills and applying the right type of Leadership in the right situation is an art. Leadership requires a complex set of traits and a refined ability to understand the situation at hand. The Leadership skills required will vary depending on the style you believe in and are trying to adopt. This is why an exploration and understanding of Leadership approaches is paramount in order to be clear about the approach required in particular situations.
Want to know even more?
- Define the meaning of Learning Cultures and review the research and evidence of how Learning Cultures are developed and sustained
- Explore all the aspects of the Investors in Learning Driving Success model and Insight tool; these are key ingredients of developing a Learning Culture which a Learning Leader needs to be aware of
- Define Learning Leader and the tools and techniques Learning Leaders need in order to create a Learning Culture.
- Lead to ensure a positive psychological contract for your staff
- Understand the psychology of change
- Explore the leadership styles, traits and values of a Learning Leader
- Create a strengths analysis and development plan for yourself, the team or the whole organisation
- Explore the values and behaviours that support a Learning Culture and how a Learning Leader can encourage these
Want to know even more?
- Define the meaning of Learning Cultures and review the research and evidence of how Learning Cultures are developed and sustained
- Explore all the aspects of the Investors in Learning Driving Success model and Insight tool; these are key ingredients of developing a Learning Culture which a Learning Leader needs to be aware of
- Define Learning Leader and the tools and techniques Learning Leaders need in order to create a Learning Culture.
- Lead to ensure a positive psychological contract for your staff
- Understand the psychology of change
- Explore the leadership styles, traits and values of a Learning Leader
- Create a strengths analysis and development plan for yourself, the team or the whole organisation
- Explore the values and behaviours that support a Learning Culture and how a Learning Leader can encourage these
Creating Sustainable Leadership – Becoming a Learning Leader
For Individuals, Teams and Organisations
In order to create a Learning Culture and to maximise our personal and professional achievements, it is important to develop our leadership skills. Whilst talent and a good work ethic will take us to a certain level, learning how to lead effectively is a key ingredient to our success in our personal and professional lives.
Self- leadership is the ability to effectively lead one’s own life , manage our time and priorities, not only to take effective decisions but also to take responsibility for the decisions we have taken. Making the link between learning and leadership and having strategies to implement this provides the foundation for any leader that any ~Learning Leader will create. Clarity and certainty around our values and how these translate into behaviours is also a vital ingredient to our self – leadership. These ingredients are also important when leading others. Some people are highly skilled at self-leadership and less so when it comes to leading others. Leading others requires a complex application of varied skills and behaviours, a high degree of interpersonal understanding as well as emotional intelligence.
Those who can lead know how to make important decisions that affect both themselves and people across the business and are mindful and self-aware of the intended and unintended consequences and the impact they are having on others. Effective Decision making skills are absolute necessity for getting ahead within business.
Effective Leaders also know how to manage their own and other people’s time effectively. Being able to do so is critical when it comes to making the most of your time, being able to work under pressure whilst and not becoming overwhelmed. It also ensures your team completed targets and that the energy that is created through the leadership style is positive, engaging, supportive and energizing. The leadership style and the traits of the leader will have a direct impact on the people he/ she is leading or supporting.
But before you can be a good leader for others you first need to be able to drive and lead your own performance and development.
This programme will give you the foundation to become a Learning Leader. As a Learning Leader you will:
- Assess your leadership style, preferences and values
- Explore and challenge yourself to look at yourself, to recognise your strengths and how these can be harnessed to support and develop your areas of development
- Create a self-development plan and make a commitment to continually develop, review and improve
- Understand the importance of exploring the thought processes behind decision making and the factors influencing the way decisions are made
- Understand that the right expectations and culture are a fundamental foundation for any sustainable Learning Culture to develop and to be sustained.
- Become acutely aware of the need to embrace change and learning in order to be the best leader you can be.
- Increasingly understand your power and use it mindfully, carefully and in the interest of creating the best possible learning environment for all.
- The importance of having deep and meaningful learning conversations, which have at their root the importance of developing learning and understanding each other’s point of view, learning processes and conclusions that ensure that lessons are learned
Modern businesses increasingly rely on unswerving individuals to get the most out of teams and spearhead the continued success of the organisation. In recent years we have seen a shift in the terminology from “Supervisor” to “Team Leader” as a result of the recognised need for an effective leader who can inspire and motivate team members to meet the organisations forward objectives.
We also have high expectations of teams to perform and to deliver results, and therefore teams more and more need to be able to understand the impact they are making on the rest of the organization and the raising of self-awareness in that regard is paramount.
In this programme you will:
- Understand how you can all become Learning Leaders together to maximise the team learning and impact
- Understand varying leadership styles and which style may be most appropriate in a particular situation and on the rest of the business
- Assessing the individual and team leadership styles in order to maximise the positive impact of the team
- Through profiling the team, there will be raised awareness of the differences and similarities in the team and how this may affect the business objectives and the impact the team is having on other stakeholders.
- Understand how the team leadership approach impacts on the rest of the organisation
- Use tools to develop Leadership qualities & strengths
- Develop positive mind-sets within the team so that they can have the best impact on others across the team
- Lead to ensure a positive psychological contract for your team
To develop and lead a Learning Organisation and have a specific impact across a whole organisation we need to adopt a Leadership approach that creates a Learning Environment where people feel engaged, energized and enabled. The core part of the Driving Success Model is about fulfilling the essential Human Elements. Therefore, as a leader, we need to learn how to create the necessary and essential engagement through recognising the need and ensuring that we are mindful and skilled in creating the right environment where engagement and motivation can flourish sustainably.
Leadership is a very broad area which has great impact at an individual, team and organisational level, and therefore it is important to recognise that a one-size-fits-all approach to learning and development can create more problems than it solves. Having specific solutions to your learning and development needs will bring tangible benefits to a business.
By assessing your current state, we will be able to provide you with data and understanding on which we can then plan a tailored strategy for your organisational leadership development. We will always include the core ingredients of the Learning Leader programme , whilst ensuring that we tailor the specific needs and priorities into the plan for your organisation. This ensures that we respect the specific context of your organisation and the challenges and priorities you are experiencing, and we will build these into the success criteria of the programme that we will build for you.
Using a combination of best practice, theory and on-site application, leadership and management capabilities within your business can be improved, so that your people will lead in new and improved ways.
We will support you to:
- Develop Learning Leaders across your organisation in order to have maximum impact with the aim of developing a Learning Culture
- Create a Learning Leadership Strategy for your Organisation. This is a vital aspect of the work we do at an organisational level as the strategy will support the dissemination and realisation and embedding of the vision and values
- Understand the current state of your organisation by conducting an Organisational Culture Assessment in order to be able to explore the necessary data with which we can develop a strategy
- Understand how to develop Lessons Learned processes and practical activities across the organisation to support the development of a Learning Culture. (Please see our Lessons Learned Programmes for specific implementation of Lessons Learned processes, activities and roles to ensure that Lessons Learned are embedded across your organisation)
- Understand your current leadership strengths through assessment and analysis
- Understand the leadership style that is essential in the context of your organisation
- Develop values and leadership styles across the organisation that are conducive to developing a positive and engaging Learning Environment
Please ensure you read about our unique tailored approach in order to understand that we will always tailor our programmes with the prime aim to address your challenges and meet your needs.
We will implement your programme ensuring minimum disruption to your other priorities and activities
Please contact us for more information so we can explore your challenges and desired results. Please do not hesitate to contact us with any questions, ideas, anything at all.
We Love to explore, and we Love to help ☺
Creating Sustainable Leadership – Becoming a Learning Leader
For Individuals, Teams and Organisations
In order to create a Learning Culture and to maximise our personal and professional achievements, it is important to develop our leadership skills. Whilst talent and a good work ethic will take us to a certain level, learning how to lead effectively is a key ingredient to our success in our personal and professional lives.
Self- leadership is the ability to effectively lead one’s own life , manage our time and priorities, not only to take effective decisions but also to take responsibility for the decisions we have taken. Making the link between learning and leadership and having strategies to implement this provides the foundation for any leader that any ~Learning Leader will create. Clarity and certainty around our values and how these translate into behaviours is also a vital ingredient to our self – leadership. These ingredients are also important when leading others. Some people are highly skilled at self-leadership and less so when it comes to leading others. Leading others requires a complex application of varied skills and behaviours, a high degree of interpersonal understanding as well as emotional intelligence.
Those who can lead know how to make important decisions that affect both themselves and people across the business and are mindful and self-aware of the intended and unintended consequences and the impact they are having on others. Effective Decision making skills are absolute necessity for getting ahead within business.
Effective Leaders also know how to manage their own and other people’s time effectively. Being able to do so is critical when it comes to making the most of your time, being able to work under pressure whilst and not becoming overwhelmed. It also ensures your team completed targets and that the energy that is created through the leadership style is positive, engaging, supportive and energizing. The leadership style and the traits of the leader will have a direct impact on the people he/ she is leading or supporting.
But before you can be a good leader for others you first need to be able to drive and lead your own performance and development.
This programme will give you the foundation to become a Learning Leader. As a Learning Leader you will:
- Assess your leadership style, preferences and values
- Explore and challenge yourself to look at yourself, to recognise your strengths and how these can be harnessed to support and develop your areas of development
- Create a self-development plan and make a commitment to continually develop, review and improve
- Understand the importance of exploring the thought processes behind decision making and the factors influencing the way decisions are made
- Understand that the right expectations and culture are a fundamental foundation for any sustainable Learning Culture to develop and to be sustained.
- Become acutely aware of the need to embrace change and learning in order to be the best leader you can be.
- Increasingly understand your power and use it mindfully, carefully and in the interest of creating the best possible learning environment for all.
- The importance of having deep and meaningful learning conversations, which have at their root the importance of developing learning and understanding each other’s point of view, learning processes and conclusions that ensure that lessons are learned
Modern businesses increasingly rely on unswerving individuals to get the most out of teams and spearhead the continued success of the organisation. In recent years we have seen a shift in the terminology from “Supervisor” to “Team Leader” as a result of the recognised need for an effective leader who can inspire and motivate team members to meet the organisations forward objectives.
We also have high expectations of teams to perform and to deliver results, and therefore teams more and more need to be able to understand the impact they are making on the rest of the organization and the raising of self-awareness in that regard is paramount.
In this programme you will:
- Understand how you can all become Learning Leaders together to maximise the team learning and impact
- Understand varying leadership styles and which style may be most appropriate in a particular situation and on the rest of the business
- Assessing the individual and team leadership styles in order to maximise the positive impact of the team
- Through profiling the team, there will be raised awareness of the differences and similarities in the team and how this may affect the business objectives and the impact the team is having on other stakeholders.
- Understand how the team leadership approach impacts on the rest of the organisation
- Use tools to develop Leadership qualities & strengths
- Develop positive mind-sets within the team so that they can have the best impact on others across the team
- Lead to ensure a positive psychological contract for your team
To develop and lead a Learning Organisation and have a specific impact across a whole organisation we need to adopt a Leadership approach that creates a Learning Environment where people feel engaged, energized and enabled. The core part of the Driving Success Model is about fulfilling the essential Human Elements. Therefore, as a leader, we need to learn how to create the necessary and essential engagement through recognising the need and ensuring that we are mindful and skilled in creating the right environment where engagement and motivation can flourish sustainably.
Leadership is a very broad area which has great impact at an individual, team and organisational level, and therefore it is important to recognise that a one-size-fits-all approach to learning and development can create more problems than it solves. Having specific solutions to your learning and development needs will bring tangible benefits to a business.
By assessing your current state, we will be able to provide you with data and understanding on which we can then plan a tailored strategy for your organisational leadership development. We will always include the core ingredients of the Learning Leader programme , whilst ensuring that we tailor the specific needs and priorities into the plan for your organisation. This ensures that we respect the specific context of your organisation and the challenges and priorities you are experiencing, and we will build these into the success criteria of the programme that we will build for you.
Using a combination of best practice, theory and on-site application, leadership and management capabilities within your business can be improved, so that your people will lead in new and improved ways.
We will support you to:
- Develop Learning Leaders across your organisation in order to have maximum impact with the aim of developing a Learning Culture
- Create a Learning Leadership Strategy for your Organisation. This is a vital aspect of the work we do at an organisational level as the strategy will support the dissemination and realisation and embedding of the vision and values
- Understand the current state of your organisation by conducting an Organisational Culture Assessment in order to be able to explore the necessary data with which we can develop a strategy
- Understand how to develop Lessons Learned processes and practical activities across the organisation to support the development of a Learning Culture. (Please see our Lessons Learned Programmes for specific implementation of Lessons Learned processes, activities and roles to ensure that Lessons Learned are embedded across your organisation)
- Understand your current leadership strengths through assessment and analysis
- Understand the leadership style that is essential in the context of your organisation
- Develop values and leadership styles across the organisation that are conducive to developing a positive and engaging Learning Environment
Please ensure you read about our unique tailored approach in order to understand that we will always tailor our programmes with the prime aim to address your challenges and meet your needs.
We will implement your programme ensuring minimum disruption to your other priorities and activities
Please contact us for more information so we can explore your challenges and desired results. Please do not hesitate to contact us with any questions, ideas, anything at all.
We Love to explore, and we Love to help ☺